Thank you for sharing your feelings with us. My heart is breaking, as well. All our hearts are breaking. Sometimes, I feel the whole world has gone crazy. Then I remember, it is not the whole world, but just a handful, out of the millions, who have no empathy, no sense of the pain they are bringing to others with their senseless acts. I guess maybe the only way to deal with this kind of event is to realize that we cannot possibly understand it. There is no way to understand or to make sense of a deranged mind. It is a hopeless feeling, to know that we cannot prevent evil, nor can we understand evil. We can only reach out, with love, and hold tight to the good that remains in the world, to love in the grip of our pain. Hugs

This was without doubt the best entry I have read about the sad things that happened on Friday, out of every blog I have read. You said it so succinctly… we need to breed empathy in our children! Thank you for making it so simple.